Initial Planning

The unit I am currently working on is 'Self Directed Project' at The Arts Unversity College in Bournemouth. This unit is all about each student choose which area of costume we want to broaden our knowledge in. As a maker, I have decided to take part in a set of ballet workshops, where I will be working in a group of five other makers. I choose this area as I have always had an interest in this aspect of dancewear.

Throughout these ballet workshops I will be learning the modern methods used in the workplace when making a classical tutu. At the end of this unit I plan to have a completed classical tutu, a research folder looking into the history of ballet and the costumes, and a workbook for my own personal future reference.

The classical tutu, I and the other makers in the ballet group produce, is being made specifically for dancers at Arts Ed in London. We will have fittings with the dancers and once the tutus are made, Arts Ed are buying these to go into their costume store for future performances.